Monthly Archives: September, 2010
Gaming Ridiculousness: The Bible Online
As both a Christian and a pastor, I’m constantly on the lookout for Bible-themed games and movies that don’t — how shall I put this? — scrape the bottom of the quality barrel. I don’t know if it’s just a question of funding or the mentality of some developers and directors who assume that if …
Quote of the Day
“To combat the negative player feedback and press that results from a game experience that isn’t perfect, [Jack] Emmert said that he is completely changing the way that Cryptic makes videogames. The biggest development is making the game playable as soon as possible so that they can refine just how fun it is.” ~ The …
Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Honking Stick
This is Sype. Sype version 2.0, that is: As you may recall, the original Sype was both a Lore-master and a self-loathing elf, who unfortunately could take her pointy-eared legacy no longer and jumped off a cliff into a very small pond, fracturing several bones and drowning in six inches of water. We then put …
Yes, they are better. Or not. Does it matter?
As the resident older MMO columnist at Massively, I have a healthy respect for pre-2004 MMORPGs. I really do. They did a lot of (for then) cutting-edge innovation, they contributed a lot to the formation of this still-developing genre, and they raised the first generation of 3D MMO gamers. A lot of people had a …
Quote of the Day
“I admit it: it’s hard to look beyond what you’ve always known and seriously consider other implementations. But this is an exciting time to make MMOs because, unlike 2002, if you find a better way to do something, most players will follow along. Very few, percentage-wise, will get hung up on the old way of doing …
Unstoppable Ego meets Immovable Ego
Thanks to Scott Jennings, I now have my “soap bubbles in sunshine” happy moment of the day. Despite the advice of probably every lawyer in the hemisphere, David Allen and Derek Smart are back at it, sniping at each other in public via long, wordy, and completely ridiculous posts. Do you watch The Office? I …
Oh Captain My Captain!
Last night, Syppi — formerly Crunch — dinged 60 in LOTRO. Cue the massive white tree of Gondor leveling animation (a terrific addition in the recent patch) and me twirling around in my chair and singing an epic opera song that will go unmentioned from here on out. Sure, I still have a ways to …
LOTRO Elves Are Super Positive!
“My heart can’t sing today…” “Will you stay a moment and listen to my troubles?” “The sorrows of the Eldar are neverending” “Hope is not in vain…” *sob*
History, Repeated.
Seriously, you’d think I’d learn from my past, but I seem to do the same things over and over again. Case in point, this past week has been almost a beat-for-beat repeat of an experience I had back in 2008. Basically, my awesome new computer had a pretty un-awesome graphics card, and I got to …
